Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — STATE CAPITAL CHAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATE CAPITAL CHAT.

Tbc bureau of statistics has completed Its compilation of returns on agriculture from the 1,014 townships in the State of Indiana. The reports show that there were 3,427,577 acres of wheat sown list fall, and of this 397,644 acres were plowed up this year on account of the hard winter conditions. This left 3,039,933 acres standing for the harvest But many reports from the northern part of the State mention that considerable of that left standing would not pay for the harvesting, but was left to stand on account of clover and grass seed having been sown in it. The wheat sown in the central sections of the State, so far as reported, has yielded well, and the yield for the whole State will be reported to the bureau later on. The average remaining of wheat and other crops is as follows: 1898. 1899. Acres wheat 3,012,832 3,039,933 Acres corn 3,915,131 3,837,969 Acres oats 1,162,451 999,100 Acres Irish potatoes.... 66,205 68,561 As to the minor crops it may be mentioned that there are 12,938 acres in rye; 12,758 in barley; 1,283 in flax; 8,524 in buckwheat; 14,930 in tobacco; 7,020 in Borgum. The acreage in timothy meadow is 1,122,902 and in clover 1,240,988. Gov. Mount announces the appoint ment of the following delegates to the anti-trust convention to be held in Chicago Sept. 13 to 16, under the auspices of the Civic Federation: Delegates-at-Large—E. B. Martindale of Indianapolis, J. B. Stoll of South Bend, R. S, Taylor of Fort Wayne, Joseph Gwynn of New Albany, Aaron Jones of South Bend and John W. Spencer of Evansville. District delegates—Goodlet Morgan of Petersburg, Prof. Joseph Swain of Bloomington, Leonard J. Hackney of Shelbyville, William H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg, Isaac H. Strouse of Rockville, William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Daniel P. Erwin of Indianapolis, W. H. Eidhorn of Bhiffton, A. M. Scott of La' doga, A. L. Kurnler of Lafayette, Mi Winfield of Logansport, J. N. Babcock of Topeka and A. P. Kent of Elkhart. There are 33,404 farm hands regularly employed in this State and the average wages paid them by the month, including board, is $13.89. The highest average pay for the month is $16.70, reports the bureau of statistics, and lowest average $10.50. There are 11,714 women and girls regularly employed in the families of farmers, and the average pay per week, including board, is $1.56. The highest average in any one county is $2.23 per week, and the lowest average in any one county is sl. These averages are found by taking the wages of all employed in either class, and dividing that by the number employed in each county. In connection with the recent return ol Senator Beveridge from Manila it is said that Mrs. Beveridge, who accompanied her husband, had the distinction of firing five shots at the Filipinos. While the Senator was on the firing line one day she went on a drive, escorted by a squad of Tennessee soldiers. She ventured too far, and soon rebel bullets were falling about her carriage. A hasty retreat was begun. Mrs. Beveridge drew her revolver, which she carried since arriving at Manila, and fired five shots in the direction of the rebels, who could, be seen skulking in the distance. Short State Item*. M. Sobra, Brazil, was fatally crushed in the Mclntosh coal mines. Arthur Wolff, Muncie, claims to have been a schoolmate of Dreyfus. A lodging house to shelter tramps during the winter will be built at Lafayette. Miss Lulu Marie Alexander, who was missing from Sellersburg, has returned home. Sale of Jacob Billman’s flock of Shropshire sheep, near Sullivan, netted him $4,000. Goodlet Morgan, Petersburg Republican, will run for Congress in the Fitst district. Mrs. Hannah .Williams, patient in the Long Cliff hospital, Logansport, fell into a bath tub in an epileptic fit, and drowned. Frankfort ordinance prohibiting loitering on the streets is now in force, and the police are cracking it to etery one who lets grass grow under his feet.